A couple years ago when I was creating the matdoes.dev blog I wrote a somewhat powerful markdown system with Regex to allow me to more easily write blog posts. Although I’ve barely written any posts, I’m still proud of it. Also this post is mostly just reference for myself, lol. I present: matdown™

Relative anchor: [matdoesdev](/blog) matdoesdev

External anchor: [matdoesdev](https://matdoes.dev) matdoesdev (External anchors have target=_blank so they open in new pages)

Normal links: https://matdoes.dev https://matdoes.dev

Code block: ```py print(‘code’) ```

print('code')

Inline code: `code` code

Block quote: > text

text

Italic: *text* text Bold: **text** text Italic & bold: ***text*** text

Horizontal center: ||text|| ||text||

Titles: # h2 ## h3 ### h4 #### h5 ##### h6 ###### h6

h2

h3

h4

h5

h6

h6

Horizontal rule: ---

Image: